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Had something similar in one of my first games. Foul of the edge of the box which I blew straight away for, only for one of the strikers to lash the ball home from 20 or so yards. Weirdly I didnt get many complaints. It did make me realise in those situations just to give myself that extra...

Personally @Monotone Whistle if that is really what you say theres 4 pretty negative comments in that short spiel. I often find its easier to make CAR's feel important and part of your team. I wouldnt want my first impression to the CAR that this is all about me and what I want. As much as we...

Most will disagree on here as they love a card or two, but I say its doing the decent thing. I've done similar things and made it perfectly clear this is the players very last chance and one wrong step and they are walking. It normally does the trick.

Now this will be tricky to explain! But the nets were attached, the bottom on the nets had metal bars on to weigh them down. However, they were padlocked up, so the bottom weights were around head height. I'm not fully sure why they have locked up like that. I would have started the game, the...

Had an u14 game today. Was due to start at 1, so I arrived just before 12:30. Upon arrival I was told the nets were padlocked up and the guy who had the key would be arriving about 1:15 so the kick off would be delayed. In the end the chap didnt turn up till about 2, so we kicked off around...

I'm with @one and his second suggestion of letting play carry on. Obviously it depends on how severe the defenders push was, but it wasnt anything over the top I'd be shouting at them to leave it and seeing how it develops from there.

Cant see any reason I'd have many problems with it really.

As a Spurs fan, I gave up on football about a month ago!

Worst thing at the moment is I take my daughter to a street dance class, where they dance around to Uptown Funk and she loves it. She's got into a habit of saying "funk" all the time. Alas when she says funk it sounds like a rather similar f word that is quite offensive. So we have to keep...

BUT you can sleep safe at night knowing you're better than all those players in claret! ;)

@Charlie Jones my mum wouldnt beat me, it would be ten times worse. She'd be both horrified and disappointed at the same time. I cant handle that sort of guilt. I would swear around my old man, but not very often. I never swear in front of my daughter. She's two and picks up everything and...

I'm 31 years of age and I still wouldnt swear in front of my Mum!

@deusex From the three games there was a caution in each game. None of the games were particularly difficult ones to referee. The last game with the penalty was the only real problem and at the time the one yellow I gave calmed things down at the time. The comments about me being qualified...

@Yacinho 3 games is a bit much I agree and I only tend to agree to it to really help out the referee secretary of the league I'm on. I've done it a couple of times in the past. But not something I like doing. Its a known knee issue, so kinda know it flares up from time to time. I get it...

Couldnt agree more @ref craig its funny how during a game you can normally match up the gobby parents with the gobby players. Its like mirror images of each other.

When people moan about referees to me I always say that all referees are terrible and our aim in every game is to be slightly less terrible than the week before.

@Matthew I had a day of games last week that has left me feeling the same, was an u14 game as well.

I've got a game this weekend and that'll probably help. I think it's probably because I've had a longer time than normal to reflect on it its made it worse. I've also been lucky this season that I've had a great season. I've had lots of good competitive teams who just want play. So I've been...

I've not been on here much lately due to a family situation. But my last games I refereed a couple of weeks ago really have got me preying for the end of the season. Now I must admit whats got me down is nothing compared to those who are out getting assaulted during a game. Had 3 games back...